Did Trump achieve what Biden couldn't?, AOC mocks Stephen Miller
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The winner of the government shutdown will be who wins these races |
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The government shutdown is now entering its first full week. So far, neither Democrats nor Republicans look any closer to a deal. Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries threw down a gauntlet and challenged House Speaker Mike Johnson to a televised floor debate, which Johnson rebuffed. A maxim of Washington is that typically, nobody wins a government shutdown. This is why each side seeks to blame the other. But determining who "wins" a shutdown is notoriously difficult. While a poll from The Washington Post showed that a plurality of Republicans blame President Donald Trump and the GOP for the shutdown, it's a difficult barometer to measure. Typically, the person who blinks in a shutdown loses. That makes New Jersey and Virginia's gubernatorial elections next month the perfect barometers. New Jersey and Virginia's elections are unique products: the states hold their elections in odd years and therefore, they serve as a barometer for the national mood and typically serve as a tea leaf for next year's midterm. Read more here. |
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| 'Dumb question': Stephen Miller says 'Black people are thrilled' as he explodes on CNN host over Portland, Chicago deployment |
Trump's chief strategist gets irate when pressed on whether ICE officers are targeting people based on race, Andrew Feinberg writes. |
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I've never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he's, like, 4 feet 10 inches. And he looks like he is angry about the fact that he's 4 feet 10 inches. |
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What else you need to know |
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- Pardon me: President Donald Trump on Monday said he'd consider a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker who conspired with the president's late friend, pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to traffic and abuse minor girls in multiple states, Andrew Feinberg reports.
- Pritzker's warning: Donald Trump's administration is surging federal law enforcement across the country to "cause chaos" and "create fear and confusion" as a "pretext" for invoking the Insurrection Act, according to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Alex Woodward writes.
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